1. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Reconstruction in the South

2. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Explain how Republicans gained control of southern state governments. Discuss how freedmen adjusted to freedom and the South’s new economic system. Summarize efforts to limit African Americans’ rights and the federal government’s response. Objectives

3. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. During Reconstruction, Republicans gained control of southern state governments through the ballot box. Thousands of black men exercised their new right to vote. Many white southern men did not vote because they refused to sign the required loyalty oath to the Union.

4. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The Republican Party attracted people who sought change, challenge, and opportunities to make money in the South. Critics saw scalawags and carpetbaggers as opportunists making their fortune off of the South’s misfortune. scalawags White southern men who had been locked out of prewar politics by the wealthy carpetbaggers White and black northerners who moved to the South to take advantage of the many postwar opportunities there

5. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Reconstruction state constitutions mandated the creation of the public school system. Public schools grew slowly in the South. The system was expensive as there were two schools in every district because of segregation. Some Republicans proposed integration but the idea was generally unpopular.

6. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Reconstruction also offered white and black women opportunities they did not find in the North. Single women carved out new roles for themselves. in medical facilities in orphanages in relief agencies in the public school system developed during Reconstruction

7. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The South had many problems that made success challenging. limited protection for African Americans racial violence rampant corruption many illiterate southerners poor quality medical care poor quality housing slower economic production than the North

8. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Freed African Americans sought to build new communities and improve their lives. Freedmen’s Bureau schools moved to look for jobs as cooks, blacksmiths, or carpenters worked at farming, lumbering, and rebuilding railroads established black churches that became centers of their communities sought education through the Freedmen’s Bureau schools, which taught reading, writing, math; and life skills, such as health, nutrition, and looking for a job. Black churches Rural areas Cities

9. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. sharecropping most of the South’s black and white poor often continued to be in debt to landlord year after year share-tenancy farmer had more control able to save money tenant farming most independent arrangement farmer needed to have good money management skills New work arrangements for African American farmers developed.

10. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The sharecropping system often led to a cycle of debt and poverty.

11. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. In reaction to Republican gains in the South, violent groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, organized to terrorize African Americans. The Klan burned black schools and churches. Racial violence grew everywhere after the Fifteenth Amendment was passed in 1869.

12. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Congressional passing and use of the Enforcement Acts reduced racial violence. The acts made it federal crime to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote. Congress used the Enforcement Acts to indict Klansmen throughout the South. Although violence declined, racial hatred persisted. The Enforcement Acts, 1870, 1871